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ABELARDITO.- Studious and arrogant boy.

ACHANTADO.- Accommodated, Sluggish.

ACHÉ.- Luck, good energy, good star.

ACISCADO.- Scared.

ADOQUIN.- Obstinate, gross, clumsy.

AFINCAR.- To recharge itself with force.

AGARRADO.- Avaricious.

AGROMERCADO.- Enclosures where products of the field are sold.

AHORA.- At this moment.

AHORITA.- Soon.

AJI.- Garlic.

AJUSTADOR.- Intimate article of the woman.

ALMENDRON.- Old car that runs by the Havanan streets.

ÁMBIA. - Friend, known.

AMBIENTOSO.- Braggart, troublemakers.

ANGUILA.- Slippery.

ANTIER.- The day before yesterday-

APEAR.- To be put on the edge, to approach a place.

APOSTACIÓN.- Bet.

ARDILLA.- Anxious.

A REGAÑA DIENTES.- When somebody does something without desire to do it.

AREPA.- Lesbian, also says "tortilleras" to them.

ARRANCAO.- Person who is without money.

ARRASTRADO.- Submissive.

ARREBATADO.- Crazy person, lunatic.

ASERE.- Friend,  "...qué volá asere"

BABOSO.- Tedious.

BACAN.- Good, excellent.

BACHECHE.- Good person.

BACTERIA.- Shirt of smooth fabric and with many drawings.

BAJITO DE SAL.- Homosexual.

BALA.- Motorcycle; Cigarette.

BALLENA.- Fat person.

BALLÚ.- Brothel.

BAÑADERA.- Bathtub.

BAMBOLLA.- Self-sufficiency, importance.

BANQUETA.- Bank without small back.

BARCO.- Unreliable person.

BARIN.- Excellent.

BARO.- Money.

BARRETIN.- Problem, mess.

BATAHOLA.- Trousers with wide legs of the fashion of the Fifties.

BATEO.- Discussion.

BATEQUEO.- A refreshment done of several things (punch).

BAYUSERO.- Relaxed, excited.

BEJIGO.- Child (only in the eastern provinces)

BEJUCO.- Telephone.

BEMBA.- The lips of the mouth.

BEMBO- The other lips.

BERREAO.- Gotten upset, get angry.

BICITAXI.- Bicycle taxi.

BICHA.- Bad woman, prostitute.

BICHO.- Intelligent, astute.

BIFTECK.- Steak, fillet.

BILONGO.- Witchcraft.

BISNE.- Business.

BISNERO.- He makes business with the tourists.

BITITE.- Eyes, watched.

BLOOMERS.- Panties.

BLUMER.- Underclothes for women, panties.

BODEGA.- Store where the products to the carriers of the "libreta" are given.

BOFE.- Unbearable, impertinente.

BOLAO.- A type that is bolao, is a person who is very annoying.

BOLETA.- Ticket.

BOLLO.- Vagina.

BOLO.- Russian.

BONCHE.- Ridicule, I relax.

BONIATO.- Yam, También se hace dulce y se come como vianda.

BOTAR.- To throw away, to reject.

BOTELLA.- (coger ~) to request a gratuitous trip.

BRETE.- To form a scandal with lies.

BRODE.- Friend, brother.

BRUJA.- Witch.

BUGARRÓN.- Bisexual man.

BURUJÒN.- Many things, like "un burujón de gente" - many people.

BUTIN.- Good.

CABALLITO.- Police with motorcycle.

CABRON.- He knows everything in the street.

CACHIMBO.- Pistol.

CACHÙ.- Kechup.

CAFRE.- He does´nt understand something.

CAGUA.- Hat.

CAKE.- Pie, cake.

CALAÑA.- Bad person.

CALDOSA.- Soup with all "viandas", well-known meat also like ajiaco in the Eastern provinces.

CAMAHÁN.- Wise person, who knows how it works in the street. ("camaján")

CAMAO.- Experimented.

CAMBALACHE.- Species of exchange, interchange, black illicit business of stock-market.

CAMBOLO.- Great stone.

CAMELLO.- Original form of public transport in Havana.

CAMIONETA.- van, light truck.

CANA.- Prison.

CAÑA.- Cuban peso (dame ~); (meter ~) to make love or to approach, to begin something.

CANCHA.- Good person.

CANDADO.- Beard style knob.

CANDELA.- Fire. "Dar candela": to set fire.

CARAMELO.- Good caracter.

CARMELINA.- Rich girl who don´t have to work.

CARNE (EN ~).- Out of money.

CASINO.- Salsa.

CATAO.- Electrical switch.

CATERVA.- Great plate of food.

CAVILLA.- Sweeps fine of iron that is used in construction.

CAYUCADA.- Brutality.

CEBORUCO.- Very great stone; stupid person.

CEDERISTA.- Member of the CDR.

CERQUILLO.- Tuft of trimmed hair that is dropped on the forehead.

CHUSMA.- Bad educated  and scandalous person.

COBA.- Clothes; (dar ~) speak much.

COBIAO.- well dressed.

COBIO.- Friend.

COCOTAXI.- Motorcycle in form of tricycle with a yellow helmet, used as taxi for tourists.

COCOTIMBA.- woman who don´t have hair, generally of black race.

CODITOS.- It is paste in form of very short and curved tubitos. (Maccaroni)

COJONES.- Balls, testicles. Used as an interjection denoting surprise, annoyance.

COLADITO.- Cane brandy of azucar.

COMECANDELA.- Communist.

COMELONA.- Person who eats much.

COMEMIERDA.- Idiot, stupid.

COMPAY.- Friend, good guy.

CONDUMIO.- Food.

CONGRIS.- Cooked white rice with a sauce of black beans.

CONSORTE.- Friend.

CONTEO.- Count.

CONUCO.- Hut.

COÑO.- Cunt. Equivalent to the American f...

CORTADO.- Stinking.

CORTAO.- Stinking, it is used mainly for badly smell of sweat.

CRECHE.- Scholarship.

CREYÓN.- Labial pencil (of the French crayon).

CRICA.- Vagina.

CUADRA.- The block is a section of street measured from corner to corner.

CUADRADO.- Extremist.

CUATROPUERTAS.- Trouser with great pockets to the sides of the knee.

CUCARACHA.- Cockroach.

CUENTOS.- Jokes.

CULILLO.- Impatience.

CUMBANCHA.- Party.

CURRALO.- Work.

CURDA.- Drunkard.

CUTARA.- Slipper, only in the Eastern provinces.

DAR CUERO.- To make fun about somebody.

DESCARGA.- Meeting between friends with music and songs.

DESGREÑADA.- Neglecting, messed up hair, without fixing.

DESMAYAR.- Not to pay attention to somebody or something, to despise.

DESPELOTE.- Disorder, confusion.

DESPINGAR.- To break, to destroy something.

DESPLAYARSE.- To loose control.

DIVISA.- Foreighn currency.

DURO.- Avaricious.

EMBALADO.- Nervous, shaken, under the drug effects.

EMBULLAR.- To animate.

ENTOLLAR.- To introduce something until the end.

ENVOLVENCIA.- Confusion.

ESCACHAO.- Someone with economic problems.

ESCAPARATE.- Locker.

ESPEJUELOS.- Glasses.

ESTILLA.- Money.

ESTRAYARSE.- To crash.

FA.- Detergent.

FAJARSE.- To fight.

FANA.- Obscene Word. Sexual segregation.

FAÑOSO.- Voice sounds nasal.

FEDERICO O FEDERICA.- Ugly person.

FIANA.- The police car.

FIÑES.- Children.

FILTRO.- Intelligent person.

FLEJE.- Skinny person.

FLETE.- Prostitution.

FONDILLO DE MUJER.- Ass.

FONGO.- It is a special type of banana.

FORRAO.- Sheltered or with much money.

FOSFORERA.- Lighter.

FREGAR.- To wash plates, is only used in this case.

FRIA.- Beer.

FRIO.- The refrigerator.

FRUTABOMBA.- Papaya.

FUACATA.- Something that does not serve, can the same be a situation, a thing or a person.

FUETAZO.- To give a blow somebody.

FULA.- U.S. Dollar.

FUNDIDO.- Crazy.

GALLETA.- Slap by the face with the open hand.

GANSO.- Homosexual.

GAO .- House.

GENTUZA.- Bad person.

GETA.- Face.

GIL.- Stupid. idiot.

GLOBERO.- Person who lies.

GLOBO.- Lie.

GOMA.- Tire, rim.

GRAJO.- Badly scent of the armpits.

GRILLO.- Prostitute, a cheap one.

GUACARA CON GUACARA.- Lesbians.

GUACHO.- Farmer.

GUACHIPUPA.- Refreshment without gas of homemade preparation.

GUAGUA.- Bus.

GUAGUANCÓ.- Typical dance.

GUAGÜERO.- Driver of guagua.

GUAJIRO.- Farmer, provincial.

GUANAJO (a).- Stupid.

GUANAQUIQUI.- Person with much money ("gunao").

GUAPO.- Problamtic person, who does not understand with anybody, like to fight. 

GUARACHAR.- To make party, go to dance.

GUARAPITO.- Police, the level more under the police. The uniforms are green olive.

GUARICANDILLA.- Prostitute.

GUAROSO.- Popular.

GUAYABA.- Lie.

GUBARRÓN.- Bisexual man.

GUINEO.- Banana fruit.

GÜIRO.- Celebration; head.

GUSANO.- Dissident.

HABICHUELA.- Kidney beans.

HALE.- Pull (to open a door.)

HAMBROSIO.- Great hunger.

HAMPANGA (DE~).- bad, conflicting.

HERIDO.- Hungry.

HIELITOS.- Cubes.

HIPOPOTAMO.- Fat person.

IFA.- Humans who transform themselves into Gods of religion YORUGUA.

INTIMA.- Compresa sanitary.

INVENTAR.- To improvise.

IRIA.- Food.

JAIBA.- Great mouth.

JALAO.- Drunkard.

JAMAR.- To eat.

JAVAO.-  A black and white mestization where the skin is clear and the hair tends not to be so straight. It is a variant between mulato and white.

JETA.- Face.

JEVA .- Girlfriend or young women.

JICOTEA.- Turtle.

JINETERA.- Prostitute, only with tourists.

JODEDOR.- Very glad man. Also it is applied to the women.

KIKIRIQUI.- Person who like to fight.

KILO.- Cent.

KIOSKO.- Where something is sold.

LAGUER.- Beer.

LECOVIO.- Friend, but not very near.

LENTES.- Contact lenses.

LEVY.- Clothes; (Cortar ~) to criticize.

LUKING.- Watching.

LUZBRILLIANTE.- Kerosene.

LYCRAS.- Meshes. Fit trousers.

MAJÁ.- Snake.

MAJASEANDO.- To walk with vague.

MALA HOJA.- Man or woman who is not good to make the love. Opposite: Buena hoja.

MAMI.- Woman.

MAMIRRIQUI.- Wonderful women.

MAMONCITOS.- Small fruit with hard skin.

MAMOTRETO.- Great or heavy great thing.

MANEJAR.- Drive a car.

MASETERO.- Person with money.

MATAVACAS.- Great knife.

MATE.- Long, very long kiss. It is also caresses, kisses and contacts in erotic zones, and, in short, a set of games that only excludes the penetration.

MÁQUINA.- Car.

METUSALÉN.- Old man.

MEDIAS.- Socks.

MEDIO TRONCO.- 50 pesos.

MEN.- Friend.

MEROLICO.- Craftsman who sells his products.

MOJONERA.- Not util.

MOLOTO.- Disordered group of people.

MOMENTICO.- In a while.

MONI.- Money.

MONINA.- Brother, also a very good friend.

MONJA.- Five pesos.

MONO.- Ugly or pretty.

MONONA.- Very nice, pretty.

MOROPO.- Head.

MUELA (DAR~).- Conversacion that never finish.

MUÑEQUITOS.- Cartoons.

MUSICAL (ESTO ES~).- Without importance.

NARRA.- Chinese.

NAWELE.- Friend, known.

NENÉ.- Boy, baby.

NICHE.- Black person.

NINFA.- Girl.

OBSTINACIÓN.- Boredom.

OBSTINANTE.- Tired of something, very boring.

ORIENTALES.- Persons from the eastern provinces.

OVEJA.- Lamb.

PÁJARO.- Homosexual.

PALADAR.- Private restaurant.

PALESTINA.- Person of the Eastern provinces.

PALO.- Drink of rum.

PANTALETA.- Panties.

PAPAYA.- Vagina.

PAPI.- Man.

PAPIAR.- To eat.

PAPIRRIQUI.- Affectionate expression towards the man.

PARADERO.- Garage, place where the line buses are parked when they are out of service.

PARLÉ.- It is a bet in a lottery.

PARQUEAR.- To park.

PARQUE.- Parking.

PARTIDO.- Homosexual; (Estar ~) to be hungry.

PASAS.- Hair of black people.

PASMADO.- Out of money.

PASMAR.- To interrupt two people who fall in love or have sex in private.

PASTA.-  Money.

PASTILLA (ES MI ~).- sexual attractive person.

PATATÚ.- One became ill suddenly.

PATENTE.- Payment of special tax to the government.

PATO.- Homosexual.

PATÓN.- He can´t dance.

PAVA.- Homosexual.

PEGA.- Work.

PELARLA.- Boring someone.

PELEAR.- To fight, to discuss.

PELO PASA.- Bad hair: Pelo Malo.

PELO CHINO.- Straight hair: Pelo Bueno.

PENCO.- Cowardly.

PEPILLA.- Young woman who dresses in fashion.

PERCHA.- Clothes.

PERFILO.- Knife.

PERILLA.- Clitoris.

PEROL.- Car.

PERRO.- (Adj.) good, great.

PERSEGUIDORA.- Patrol.

PESCADO.- Ten pesos.

PESCAO (METER ~).- muy bien.

PESTILLO.- Prostitute, "jinetera".

PETARDO.- Cheap prostitute.

PETER.- tablet of chocolate.

PICO.- Masculine sexual organ. 

PICUA.- Speak ironic.

PIE (METER ~).- amounted to.

PILA.- Faucet; (una ~ de) very many.

PINCHA.- Work.

PINCHO.- High civil employee of the government.

PINGA.- Masculine sexual organ, penis.

PIÑAZO.- Hit with the closed hand.

PIRARSE.- To go away.

PISTEAR.- To take a walk.

PITÉN.- Game of baseboll in the street.

PITUSA.- Jeans.

PLUMÓN.- Labeller.

POMO.- Plastic bottle.

POPIS.- Sport shoes.

PRAJO.- Cigarette.

PRIETO.- Black.

PULLA.- Shoe of woman with very pointed heel.

PULOVER.- T-shirt. (the "camiseta" is the underclothes without sleeves, the outer t-shirt is called "pulover")

PUNTO.- Wild person, person of immoral or innobles conducts; "pestillo".

PURA .- Mother.

PURO .- Father.

QUEBÓLA.- What goes?

QUEMAO (SER ~).- Very intelligent one; (ESTAR ~) crazy.

QUEMAR PETRÓLEO.- To fall in love with a black woman or man.

QUIMBAR.- To make love.

QUIMBAO.- Crazy person, silly.

QUIMBOMBÓ.- Vegetable.

QUITRIN.- Car with a horse.

RABO.- Masculine sexual organ.

RASTRA.- Great truck with tows, "vikingo".

RECABUCHAR.- To watch at somebody naked without permission, generally by a hollow.

REGADO.- Disordered.

REGUERO.- Disorden in the house.

RELAJO.- Disorden.

RIPIAR.- To destroy (someone).

RIPIARSE.- To enjoy dancing; to fight.

RUFA.- Bus.

RUMBA.- Party.

SALACIÓN.- Bad luck.

SALVAVIDAS.- Eggs.

SAPIAR.- To interrupt a pair.

SATA.- A woman who like to have many contacts to men at parties but without relacions; not a prostitute.

SAYA.- Skirt.

SAYUELA.- Underclothes of woman.

SENTADERAS.- Rumps.

SINGAR.- To make love, sexual act.

SINGAO.- Very bad.

SINGUILLA.- Impertinent.

SOCIO.- Friend.

SOLAR.- Building with many "casas".

SOPLAO.- Good, flavorful.

SUBURSIO.- Heart attack.

TACO.- Intelligent.

TACOS.- Shoes.

TACHO.- Hair of the head.

TALLAR.- To fall in love.

TALLE.- Words that you say when you fall in love with somebody.

TARROS.- Adultery, horns.

TEMBANA.- Woman of mature age. More than forty years.

TEMPLAR.- Synonymous of "singar".

TIMBIRICHE.- "kiosko".

TIMÓN.- Steering wheel.

TITIMANIA.- Old man who like young women.

TENIS.- Sport shoes.

TIN.- A bit.

TIÑOSA.- Bad augury; problem.

TIRARSE.- To make (a photo).

TOCAO.- good people, pretty.

TOLETE.- Penis, brutal.

TOMAR LUCHA.- To worry too much.

TORTILLERA.- Lesbian.

TOSTONES.- "Platanos" (sort of banana) green fried, squashed and returned to refreir.

TOTA.- Vagina.

TRAPOS.- New and pretty clothes.

TRIGUEÑO(A).- People with straight dark hair.

TROMPON.- Hit with the closed hand.

TRONAR.- To punish, to expel.

TRONCO DE JEVA.- Girl with nice body.

TROZAO.- Hungry.

TRUSA.- Bikini.

TUNTURUNTÚ.- That one goes away, it disappears.

TUPAMAROS.- Cigarettes of homemade preparation using paper of plans or newspapers.

TURCA.- Lie.

VALDE.- Bucket in the Eastern zone of Cuba.

VALDIAR.- To clean the floor with much water.

VEJIGO.- Boy.

VENAO.- Prostitute. ("jinetera")

VENIRSE.- To run, to ejaculate, to have orgasmo.

VENTANA.-$20.00 Pesos

VERRACO.- To be an idiot.

VIANDA.- Food that accompanies the strong plate. (Banana, sweet potato, malanga, ñame, yucca)

VIGUETA.- Bad.

VIKINGO.- Great truck with tows.

VITITI (DARSE ~).- proudly demonstrate new things f.e. to the neighbors.

VOLÁ.- "Qué volá..." (What happened?)

VOLAO (ESTAR ~).- to have plague, to have a hard penis.

VUELTO.- The change, What they give back to you when you didn´t give the exact amount.

WALFARINA.- It is a rum, very hard.

WARAREY.- Confidence.

YEGUA.- Homosexual (also: Cherna, pato, bajito de sal).

YÍPI.- Jeep.

YIRA.- Money.

YUCA.- eatable root (also: penis).

YUMA.- Foreigner.

YUNTA.- Good friend.

ZOQUETE.- Lack of respect, if you don´t shut up when you should.

ZURDO.- Person who can´t dance.

ZUSNAR.- To sleep.